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URL:https://www.earlymusicamerica.org/events/sweet-flutes-of-the-baroque/
SUMMARY:Sweet Flutes of the Baroque
DESCRIPTION:Jesse Lepkoff\, director\, early flutes and recorders\, graduat
 ed from The New England Conservatory\, Boston. He received his graduate ed
 ucation at the Royal Conservatory in the Netherlands with flutist Wilbert 
 Hazelzet. His many performances include appearances with The Smithsonian C
 hambers Players\, The Musicians of Swanne Alley\, The Newberry Consort\, J
 oel Fredriksen &amp\; Ensemble Phoenix\, The Arcadia Players and as a solo
 ist with The National Symphony under the direction of Christopher Hogwood.
  He has appeared at many major festivals around the world including Tangle
 wood\, Aix en Provence\, Wolf Trap\, BEMF\, Holland Festival Oude Muziek\,
  Utrect\, Festival d’Ile de France among others. The Springfield Union N
 ews reported: “His phrasing seemed to defy the human body’s oxygen req
 uirements\, while remaining infinitely graceful and acoustically penetrati
 ng.” He performs and records regularly with The Boston Camerata\, and si
 nce 1984 has toured with them in 14 countries\, and has recorded for Ameri
 can and European radios\, as well as for the Erato\, Fleur de Son\, and No
 nesuch labels. In the U.S. he has appeared many times live on WGBH radio\,
  the BBC and given lecture concerts at the Smithsonian\, New England Conse
 rvatory and Louisiana University\, Lafayette. Mr. Lepkoff also is a guitar
 ist and singer/songwriter and has recorded 2 CDs of his own Brazilian insp
 ired original songs.\n\nJohn McKean is a harpsichordist and musicologist b
 ased in Boston\, where he serves on the faculty of the Longy School of Mus
 ic. Frequently in demand as both a soloist and continuo player\, he has pe
 rformed extensively throughout Europe and North America\, with concert eng
 agements bringing him to venues as far afield as the Concertgebouw (Amster
 dam)\, Fondazione Cini (Venice)\, Museu da Música (Lisbon)\, St. Martin-i
 n-the-Fields (London)\, Norðurljós Hall (Reykjavík\, Iceland)\, and the
  Philips Collection (Washington\, DC). Critically acclaimed for his “int
 elligent” and “precise” playing (The Washington Post) as well as his
  “sonorous brilliance and thrilling\, dance-like energy” (Allgäuer Ze
 itung)\, Dr. McKean performs with leading American and European ensembles\
 , including Apollo’s Fire\, Emmanuel Music\, the Catacoustic Consort\, C
 amerata Vocale Freiburg\, Habsburger Camerata\, and has appeared with the 
 Jacksonville\, Naples\, Portland (Maine)\, and Pittsburg symphony orchestr
 as (among others). He counts among his live radio broadcasts performances 
 on NPR\, BBC Radio 3\, and Deutschlandradio Berlin.\nDr. McKean holds degr
 ees in German Studies and Harpsichord Performance from Oberlin College/Con
 servatory and an advanced performance diploma from the Hochschule für Mus
 ik Freiburg (Germany)\, where his studied with Lisa Crawford/Webb Wiggins 
 and Robert Hill respectively. He received additional instruction over the 
 years from some of the greatest modern masters of historical keyboards\, i
 ncluding Arthur Haas\, Jacques Ogg\, Skip Sempé\, Jesper Christensen\, Ke
 til Haugsand\, Mitzi Meyerson\, Richard Egarr\, and Gustav Leonhardt. He a
 lso holds an M.Phil. and a Ph.D. in historical musicology from the Univers
 ity of Cambridge (U.K). His master’s thesis unearthed new details concer
 ning the life and works of French harpsichord composer Gaspard Le Roux\, w
 hile his doctoral dissertation examined the development of keyboard techni
 que during the German Baroque. For several years he served as an assistant
  editor of the Oxford University Press journal Early Music. Beyond his mus
 icological work and performing career\, he also maintains an active intere
 st in instrument building (he regularly performs on his own reconstruction
  of a 17th-century Flemish harpsichord)\, music publishing\, typography\, 
 and exploring the remote corners of his home state of Maine.\nhttps://yout
 u.be/CxhVoX55kD8
CATEGORIES:Concerts
LOCATION:Lindsay Chapel\, First Church in Cambridge Congregational\, 11 Gar
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